quad_swap64 and quad_sort64 are only about 350 lines combined.

Wow the Snap install is > 80MB ..; for a console based text editor...

I love this thing because if you remove the first four points, it's just a good how-to about life in general. Actually if you follow these rules you may never have to vanish :

#Discard your old life. #Limit the resolve and resources of your opposition. #Run from your opposition (and your old life.) #Hide from your opposition.

Make new friends. Acquire a (new) identity. (Legal papers: Birth record, Social Security #) Find gainful employment. Pay your taxes. Get medical, life, and automotive insurance. Get a credit card -- and keep it paid up. Perhaps take college courses to learn a new marketable skill. Acquire and maintain respectability in your community. Find a wife or husband: Make a (new) family. Don't drink heavily, don't use any illegal drugs, don't do any crimes. Die with dignity.

That's definitely a little idealistic on several levels. First because of this* quote, which describes the reality we live in. Secondly, that assumes that living a life that adheres to the law is totally fair an just. History is full of acts of civil disobedience which in some cases could require people to disappear.

* "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience

Ah, the end of the bathroom-mirror selfies ? :D

"nginx does provide health_check in its commercial builds, but at this time I'm not too inclined to pay $1500/server/year for the pleasure."

But Varnish does it for free out of the box ! Quick example from the documentation (https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/BackendPolling) :

backend b0 { .host = "phk.freebsd.dk"; .probe = { .url = "/probe.cgi"; .timeout = 34 ms; .interval = 1s; .window = 10; .threshold = 8; } }

Bitcoin exchanges are often targeted by DDOS attacks, often as a type of market manipulation.

What's your point?

Why does HFT care where we are or how we're rotated in relation to the sun? So long as we all agree on what time it is, whether 12pm denotes high noon or not is arbitrary and irrelevant.

The only thing I can think of: a good HFT algo might be able to exploit leap seconds to somehow gain an advantage over those that are ignorant of them (or vice versa).

Ah remembers me of this "genius" chinese external hard drive scam : http://www.neowin.net/news/fake-chinese-500-gb-external-driv...

This is like brainf*ck to me.

Brainfuck relies on pointer arithmetic, while this is using bit shifting.

Brainfuck commands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Commands

Bit shifting: http://stackoverflow.com/a/141873/58740